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11 million takeover day

The second national 11 MILLION Takover Day was held on Friday 7 November and Opportunity Links opened their doors to six Higher Creative and Media Diploma students from Cambridge Regional College.

During the morning the young people were trained in social research techniques and participated in a number of other creative activities, they were then provided with Flip video cameras and practiced their newly learned interviewing skills on each other.

In the afternoon Opportunity Links staff were put in hot seat by the students as they conducted interviews with the cameras and investigate their opinions on the internet and social media.

Over the next week the young people will be let loose on their friends and family to find out how they are are using the internet and social media. 

The footage will then be edited to create a video which will be shown at Opportunity Links conference in London on the 27 November, ‘New Generation, new media, new challenge!  Engaging with young people through social media’. There the students will once again act as journalists; tasked with gathering information, filming and recording interviews during the day, and publishing it over social media networks.

The whole day was declared a fantastic success, the young people got a chance to learn new skills and build their knowledge and experience and Opportunity Links will gain through accessing fresh ideas to help inform our work in this sector.

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By Sue Curtis
November 10, 2008

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